CVE-2013-0208

medium

Published 2013-02-13 · Modified 2026-04-29

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

6.5

Description

The boot-from-volume feature in OpenStack Compute (Nova) Folsom and Essex, when using nova-volumes, allows remote authenticated users to boot from other users' volumes via a volume id in the block_device_mapping parameter.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
debian	bookworm	fixed	`2012.1.1-12`
debian	bullseye	fixed	`2012.1.1-12`
debian	forky	fixed	`2012.1.1-12`
debian	sid	fixed	`2012.1.1-12`
debian	trixie	fixed	`2012.1.1-12`
ubuntu	11.10	affected
ubuntu	12.04	affected
ubuntu	12.10	affected

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
openstack	essex	`-`
openstack	folsom	`-`

References

CWEs

CWE-264

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.